Breadwinning Daughters : Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939 /
Srigley, Katrina
Breadwinning Daughters : Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939 / Katrina Srigley. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto. Oral histories give voice to women from a range of cultural and economic backgrounds, and challenge readers to consider how factors such as race, gender, class, and marital status shaped women's lives and influenced their job options, family arrangements, and leisure activities. Breadwinning Daughters brings to light previously forgotten and unstudied experiences and illustrates how women found various ways to negotiate the burdens and joys of the 1930s.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442685253
10.3138/9781442685253 doi
Depressions--Ontario--Toronto.--1929
Single women--Employment--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Women employees--Economic conditions--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Women employees--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Women employees--Social conditions--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Young women--Employment--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
HISTORY / Canada / General.
HD6100.T6 / S75 2010eb
305.242/20971354109043
Breadwinning Daughters : Young Working Women in a Depression-Era City, 1929-1939 / Katrina Srigley. - 1 online resource (240 p.)
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
As one of the most difficult periods of the twentieth century, the Great Depression left few Canadians untouched. Using more than eighty interviews with women who lived and worked in Toronto in the 1930s, Breadwinning Daughters examines the consequences of these years for women in their homes and workplaces, and in the city's court rooms and dance halls.In this insightful account, Katrina Srigley argues that young women were central to the labour market and family economies of Depression-era Toronto. Oral histories give voice to women from a range of cultural and economic backgrounds, and challenge readers to consider how factors such as race, gender, class, and marital status shaped women's lives and influenced their job options, family arrangements, and leisure activities. Breadwinning Daughters brings to light previously forgotten and unstudied experiences and illustrates how women found various ways to negotiate the burdens and joys of the 1930s.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442685253
10.3138/9781442685253 doi
Depressions--Ontario--Toronto.--1929
Single women--Employment--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Women employees--Economic conditions--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Women employees--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Women employees--Social conditions--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
Young women--Employment--History--Ontario--Toronto--20th century.
HISTORY / Canada / General.
HD6100.T6 / S75 2010eb
305.242/20971354109043